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Selected Reading on Archaeology, Anthropology and Burial
Home - by Francis Pryor Stone - by Jeffrey Cohen The Dominion of the Dead - by Robert Pogue Harrison Before sourcing these book, and...
rachelthompson63
Mar 22, 202410 min read
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Ancient Site Visits
Bartlow Hills Roman Burial Site, Cambridgeshire Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire Silbury Hill, Wiltshire The Sanctuary stone circle,...
rachelthompson63
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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Artists research: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
"Such returns, where “pieces of past and present mesh”, have repeatedly recurred in Holt’s life" Trail Markers: A series of twenty...
rachelthompson63
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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The Anthropological Importance of Ritual Gatherings
Selected readings on the subject of gatherings from an anthropological/ethnographic perspective. 'Community events provide a space in...
rachelthompson63
Nov 1, 20235 min read
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A Circular Walk and Psychogeography
I looked into the principle ideas behind psychogeography for my research paper and have found it really interesting to find an actual...
rachelthompson63
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Unearthing Exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery
In this exhibition, ten modern and contemporary artists engage in processes of unearthing to explore complex histories, geographies, and...
rachelthompson63
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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Tate Britain: Ithell Colquhoun and Turner
I wanted to see a painting by Colquhoun in person as I'm writing about it in part of my research paper. It was certainly interesting to...
rachelthompson63
Aug 22, 20233 min read
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Visit to Avebury Stone Circle
This summer I visited Avebury stone circle. It was serendipitous that a gathering had been organised for the exact time we visited so I...
rachelthompson63
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Magic and the Occult
To find out some wider content to the work of Ithell Colquhoun, I'm reading a couple of books that explore the magic and the occult, both...
rachelthompson63
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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André Breton and the Manifesto of Surrealism
‘Pure psychic automatism ... the dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason and outside all moral or...
rachelthompson63
May 31, 20232 min read
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Automatism and the techniques used by Ithell Colquhoun
"In art, automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the...
rachelthompson63
May 20, 20236 min read
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Psychogeography
I've been reading more about Psychogeography in relation to my research paper and found a good book in the UAL e library by Merlin...
rachelthompson63
May 20, 20233 min read
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Tracks and Paths- and Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways
'For paths run through people as surely as they run through places' I've been reading Robert Macfarlane's 'The Old Ways' where he travels...
rachelthompson63
May 12, 20237 min read
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A Closer look at Ithell Colqhuorn
I've been in touch with Tate archive recently as I'd read they had a large collection of early drawings and watercolours by Colqhoun. In...
rachelthompson63
Apr 20, 20235 min read
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Neolithic Forms
I've written about the Stonehenge exhibition I went to last summer in another post and wanted to find out more about the significance of...
rachelthompson63
Mar 30, 20235 min read
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The Symbols and Rhythms of Circle Dancing
I've been reading about circle dancing and have been surprised to find so much history and meaning to it. "The circle in a symbol for...
rachelthompson63
Mar 23, 20232 min read
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Chopping and Rearranging Paintings
I've been looking at thee sketchbooks of the artist Jo Blaker and Karen Stamper to push my perception of what a sketchbook can be. I...
rachelthompson63
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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The gentle philosophy of William Kentridge - (and experiments with chance, fortune and edges)
I'm finding that listening to interviews of Kentridge talking about his process is hugely enabling for me as I tread the unknown with my...
rachelthompson63
Jan 26, 20232 min read
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Käthe Kollwitz Exhibition at The Royal Academy
"The expression of profound emotion through portrayals of the human body" This weekend I went to the Making Modernism exhibition at The...
rachelthompson63
Jan 22, 20232 min read
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Royal Drawing School Creative Conversations
Yesterday evening I watched a live event run by the Royal Drawing School, where Andrea Biasca-Caroni and Thomas Marks were discussing the...
rachelthompson63
Jan 19, 20231 min read
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